The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-11-10
NEWS IN GENERAL.
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| Inc ppuos VI ~ inbii uii't WV WohVhs Wv
tins OF the Vernon disaster, were found 10
miles north Of Two Rivers. All the bodies
were dressed. The remains OF the two
women, who looked like sisters, were clothed,
with the exception Of shoes One OF the
bodies of the men was that Of Captain George
Thorpe OF the Vernon, who lived at 0gdens
burg, N. Y, and another that OF b. Is, Dor
land, a travelling man from Milwaukee. The
captains watch had stopped at five minutes
before o'clock
The SIS colored hands on Laccasague's
sugar plantation In the parish Of Terre
Bonnie, on Bayou block, have struck for
higher wages, while the 25 white laborers
remained at work. Mr., Laccasague at once
began filling up his force with white men, -Four
of the white laborers were shot from an am
bush by the strikers. Mr.. Laccasague has
asked the governor for troops, The strike of
laborers now includes almost every planta-
ton in southwest Louisiana, A number Of
rngleaders in the strike in st. Mary's par
, ish were arrested.
William Simms and Harry Howard of
Pitts urg, Pa, have been arrested for the
murder Of Frank Harm, whose body was
found in a carriage that had been shipped
from New Haven, Ct, to Chicago. Scott
Ray, suspected OF completely in the crime.
is in Jail at Rochester, Pa, on a charge Of
disorderly conduct 1t Is stated that Ray
and several friends assaulted woman
that the murdered man was an
important witness against them.
Mail advices from the Hawaiian Islands
are to the effect that the Hawaiian govern
ment has decided to cede Pearl River harbor
TO the United States as a coaling station. The
harbor in question Is near Honolulu and re-
garded as The finest In the Hawaiian group.
Thomas II. Davis. the cashier and assist
ant freight agent of the New York Central
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who disappeared on Oct l4th, and was after
ward arrested in Camden, N. j., when 1t was
found that his accounts were short, has been
sentenced to four years and ten months in
Sing Sing prison.
The Commercial Cable Company has filed
certificate of increase in capital stock from
$4,000, 900 to S6,000,0Oo Additional shares
to the number of $1,000 will be issued,
The Jury in the case of Mrs. Meta K Still
man against the Stonington and Providence
Navigation Company, sitting in the United
States court at New York, gave the plaintiff
n verdict for $780, On June 10, 1880, Mrs.
Stillman was injured while on board the
| steamer Narragansett when 1t collided with
the steamer Stonington.
An American periodical called Family
Fiction is said to be really the medium for
advertising the louisiana state lottery and
other such illegal institutions, and has been
prohibited in Canada.
News comes from Faulkner county, Ark,
of the burning to death of the three little
grandchildren of T. S. Oliver, a very old
| man, who with his wife, went out to the
field to pick cotton, leaving the three chill
dren alone in the house, which was burned to
the ground. The charred remains of the
| three children were found close together. 1t
is not known how the fire originated.
Mrs Samuel Nelson, who lives near Oak
land. ILL.,, gave birth to four babies, three
girls and a boy. The four children are doing
well, but the mothers life is despaired of.
Some time ago the house of D. s. Wilson,
| at Dubuque, Ia, was entered by burglars,
his daughter, Mrs. Brock, chloroformed and
several hundred dollars worth of jewelry
and other valuables stolen. The family Were
agreeably surprised one morning lately to
find everything taken by the thieves lying Oh
III, front doorstep with note stating that
the burglars were sorry they had taken the
articles and asked forgiveness
| A Macon (Ga) dispatch says that there are
| considerable doubts as to whether Mr.. Jeffer-
son Davis will return to his home at Beau
voir, Miss, alive. His condition is extreme
| ly precarious.
4 special from Delhi, La, gives particu-
lars of a horrible wholesale poisoning.
George King, living near Lamara in Frank
lin parish, gave dance and supper at his
residence. After the supper was over nearly
| all the guests were taken sick. A doctor was
sent for, who sud that the sickness was
caused by poison, and was unable to render
| much relief Seven persons have died from
the effects of Che poison. The cook is not
suspected to be guilty, as she is dangerously
| sick herself, and her husband and one or two
| children are dead.
| Wild circus animals liberated at st. Louis
| by collision of cars caused intense excite
ment, one man was killed and two injured.
Spies, Fielder and Schwab have weakened
| and sigTed a petition hiimbly begging Gov.
| Oglesby to commute the sentences, but the
| other Anarchists absolutely refuse to sign,
The hp:!ding of new railroads is greater
| than ever before; 9iOS miles of track have
been laid since Jan, !.
| The New York board of health thinks it
not necessary to send cholera ships back to
| infected ports.
A dispatch says that several members of the
New York Base Ball Club We're intoxicated
| when they entered the grounds to play a
| game at New Orleans with the home nine.
Their conduct was disgraceful. When an
officer attempted to arrest them, Mike Kelley
| tried to prevent the arrest. but no attention
was paid to him. Capt. John Ward during
the game, took his wife from the grounds,
| and placing her in carriage, sent her to
| the st. Charles Hotel because of the disgrace
! full exhibition of some of the spectators and
players. The club will probably disband
Attorney Delaney is to push the criminal
prosecution of Messrs, Gould and Sage.
The mail schooner Ocean Bird of Viii.
mugton, N. c., has been lost with all on
| hoard.
Miners in Hazelton, Pa, get the advance in
| wages demanded.
Secretary Lamar has been appointed to a
| place OIL the supreme bench TO succeed the
late Justice Wood.
| DR.. McGlynn created sensation at labor
meeting in New York by saying he was as
much a priest as ever and that the church
was going to reconsider its action in his
| case.
The discovery is reported in Minnesota of
a cavern filled with oil and containing fishes
"a sort of mammoth sardine box.
Cardinal Gibbons vas presented with cross,
| chain and ring while in New Orleans.
Several persons were in jurei by the fall of
| the ceiling of New York millinery store.
The receiver of the Fidelity National Bank
| has been suei for $4,000 by the American
| National Bank OF Chicago.
| New York is to celebrate the Tooth ami.
versary of Washing5on's Inauguration as
President of the United States.
| Twenty-Five horses were burned to death in
the basement OF a livery stable in New York,
together with number of valuable private
carriages The total loss will reach S25, 900;
only partially insured.
Middletown, n. Y, has had considerable
| excitement over "wild" man, whose strange
| actions frightened the female portion OF the
| population almost beyond endurance He
| was captured after a tissie and remanded to
| jail as I. vagrant, panuti,e medical eSamina-
ton as to his sanity He hailed from Kan
| sas and claimed that he had been robbed of
his property and was fleeing from his parse
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